Shanyaa

“I like knowing there’s certain laws in the universe, Ayla’s father had said once, a very long time ago, before everything. You can’t count on much. Can’t trust most things to stay solid. But there is always some sort of force at work. Even way out there past the sky, so far away that we can’t even imagine it, things work the same. Your mother would explain it better. Everything is just bodies in motion, bodies in orbit, just like here. Pushing and pulling. You know what that’s called? The law of falling.”
― Nina Varela, Iron Heart

“Simon Snow is grinning at me, holding out a live rat like a single-stemmed rose.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“He urged again, “Thoughts?” Gideon said, “Did you know that if you put the first three letters of your last name with the first three letters of your first name, you get ‘Sex Pal’?”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“For what it’s worth, you’ve never disappointed me once since I’ve met you”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop